Famous quotes containing the words spring and/or offensive:
“Welcome hither,
As is the spring to th’ earth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)